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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1933.
Nine-Power Treaty
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Sir John Hope Simpson's tion which the Powers signatory to the Nine-Power Treaty have consistently endeavoured to side- track. He argues that, fr respective of what tho League
WOULD YOU LIVE YOUR The Very Idea!
LIFE AGAIN?
By SIR HERBERT BARKER
of
period,
Ito
A BAD BUS-INESS By Edward Kelly, Frustrated Transport Export.
Does he think # muttered
our pal?
We
little less soda.
The buses would have been all double dockera. Ifor everyone.
A square deal
#
to gove
may be doing, Britain and her recently published bock, tells us was good,
Mr. Winston Churchill, in hisjand oushrine in memory all that ten bucks on the strength of win- Hero we've gone and borrowed co-signatories have an obliga- that he would not care to live his.
ning the motor-bus franchiao, and tion to China to insist that the life again. To anyone who has that no man would gladly pass
There are pasanges in the years the Government has let us down.. terms of the Treaty are carried watched in admiration and amaze again. They occurred mostly be- after this? What will the Colonial Dare they look us in the face out and that China's territorial ment that astonishing career, this tween chlidhood and manhood, Secretary say the next time he terference, and he points out integrity bo not subject to, in- confession comes disconcertingly. that dark passage which Konta has bumps Into us in the street?
If a man who has been a soldier, called Sinister Street. Those that Britain went to war in 1914 War correspondent, politician, yours I would not gladly Hive again. apology will heal the bronch? for a Treaty infringement of statesman, sportsman, and artist, Thore, given another lease of life, How are we going to borrow an
and achieved greatly in most of I would like to edit the doldrums other ten bucks from lesser magnitude. The history theso diverse activities, would not of my adolescene-for many life's JUST COME IN AND of the Nine-Power Treaty is in return to the deast of life, how unhappiest
Pah! teresting in this connexion. In much less should less brilliant looking back across the years, we were going to do when
Otherwise, ASK US FOR A RUN 1917, Count Ishli visited
We had it all mapped out what the mortals desire the return of the nearer seventy than fifty, I soc tendered for the franchise, First IN A 1933 VAUXHALL | Bhil-Lansing agreement which
United States and obtained the dead days?
Hfe as a marvellous gift, of which This question is, of course, our one could scarcely have too much. of all, Kowloon busca, instead of .CADET
conceded Japan special interests old friend: Is Life Worth Living? Evon were I poor and bedridden, alahing at the Star Ferry, would in China. The agreement creat- If one answers in the affirmative, I would not want to go. Life is stop in front of the Peninsula ed a furore among the chancel then the answer to the question at worth while, even to the solvement we will accept ours within Hotel, For this free advertise- WE WANT THIS CAR TO leries. Did "special interests" the head of this page is also Yes. spectator
everchanging BECOME
Schopenhauer, the German philo- panorama. KNOWN
mean "special relations"? AND
sopher, decided that life was not
Once Not Enough WILL ASK NO IMPERTINENT they did, then "special relations" worth living, reaching that con-
But, I ask myself: Would Aurely implied a "special post-clusion by reasoned argiment. want my life again, just de It was? QUESTIONS REGARDING YOUR
tion." INTENTIONS.
Japan encouraged this Ho would have been more view.
con- I hesitate, but not for long. Yos, The State Department, vincing if he had pressed his con-I would. Most men, who would
There would bo upper seats and responding to China, allayed disclusion to its logical end and say offhand that one innings has lower seats. Lower seats for quiet to some extent by stating followed the example of the poet been enough, would accept a con- scats for the lower class. It will those on their uppers and upper that in its opinion "special in- Chatterton.
ditional renewal. To bogin ognin tercats" were economic, not
Life is Good
with well learned all those lessons be readily observed how closely political. In spite of this
that are so costly in the learning was observed the needs of the dementi, however Japan still do not mean what they say. Life Or to return again, after a lapse People talk like that, but they that would be marvellous indeed.
Kowloon community.
Then again, we should have had clung to its own interpretation. may be grievous, may bring pain, of years, with memory of a former really modern buacs. Wireless Partly to win a policy that would pain of body and pain of heart. life. 1 feel sure that if I asked sets for the amusement of pas- be common to all concerned, the It may bludgeon us until we turn, that Washington Conference of 1021 like Job, and
questing, dynamic force angers, an endless chale of spit- ant why such known to the world as Mr. Winston toons running the length of the WILA convened, and thereafiction should be our lot. Life Churchill, he would accept an corridor, and a complaints depart- emerged the Nine Power pact, may bring first high hope and then invitation to live his life again, mont on every vehicle which rendered the Lansing worldly standards. It may take So would most of us.
the bitterness of failure by say, in the twenty-first century, clients the inconvenience of run- Ishii agreement obsolete.
ning to the office overy five 1923 it went into the discard us perfidious those whom we had confess that, having been given
In from us our loved ones and reveal
minutes. To do otherwise would be to unsung.
Mora efficiency would have been It was hoped that reason to trust. There is indeed, the boon of life, one had made so new modus of relations had been no end to the bad tricks and cruel little of it as to reckon the gift ple who have to pay fifteen cents a fifty per cent, increase in everything. Peo- ushered into Pacific affairs with jokes life may play upon us, and was not worth the having. To me the Nine Power pact. That few of us escape. hope, too, has now gone into the Yet, all said and done, it re-any man should consider life a it is a rather awesome thing that
challenged, and acting upon the Surely because Nature has a sys-poascas what is probably the Wo'd stop all that by making assertion, that it is not "ade-tem of compensation that makes highest form of life in the whole the fare thirty cents.
worth living lives that appear universe. And I take leave ta quate" to cope with changed bleak, drab, and sometimes really doubt whether many people, in the buses haven't been able to make Up to now, passengers on the circumstances in China. Japan dreadful. It is one of life's iron-depths of their heart, really feel the conducters understand what certainly must be more concern-[ies that most of us spend our time that life is not worth while. ed than any other country with envying our fellows. We judge
they want. We'd remedy that by what is going on in China. Does the lives of others by externals. and bitterness that one
It is in moments of depression offering every holder of a month- heurs ly ticket free tuition in Canton- this signify, however, that it They appear happier than we be-people say: "I would not like to Clemency has prevailed in should arrogate to itself the sole cause we see only the masks they live my life again!" It is merely the case of Cheng Kwok-yau, right of chastising China for present to the world. We know hyperbole. They do not mean Itment is a bad business.
Strikes us the present arrange- the death sentence upon whom f any derelictions of which Ching nothing of their inner lives. has been commuted
All around I see old men in the Saying which we wipe our hands to one might be guilty in carrying out Joy Exceeds Sarrow full vigour of body and health. of the franchise utterly, merely life imprisonment. The national duties? This by no prompt and weighty support means follows even
I imagine were we to know the They do not sit impatient for the remarking as we leave that a bird from the complete truth about the lives of coming of the Dark Angels, but in a motor car is worth two in a given to the second petition admission of Japan's argument others, and they of ours, we should turn their faces towards life, lov-hus. on the youth's behalf is that the Nine Power pact is "in-find that on balance most of us ing it yet. They live on. Would sufficient to indicate that the de- adequate." What does follow is get our fair share of happiness they do so were life a patient walk-i cision accords with public feel that unitedly the world should our ration of sorrow and rufforing.ing for rolense? Of course not!
Give More, I believe that between these vigour of youth and I would ing. In view of the first dis-discuss these new conditions and two we should find the balance in welcome a second journey through star: "Yea. I landed on Saturday. inclination not to interfere with take action within some inter-favour of happiness. There is the years. At best, one lease ofI haven't run away from Holly-.
more joy in the world than misery life gives us but a glimpac of all wood; I've been sacked. even in these hard times. The the wonders of the world, only an
"Why? Because I've no sex-ap- real criterion of the will to live is infiniteatimal taste of happiness, peal. My publicity agent can't do not the idly spoken or written
anything with me." word: it is the test of decision only a partial self-fulfilment.
"Do I like Hongkong? No, I When life, so often decried when
Most Would Accept its lease seems secure, is in peril,
don't. The climate in ghastly and To those who take the other the view of that gloomy hill of men eling desperately to it.That view. I would say: Imagine your yours is particular detestable; and is the test.
self presented with this gift. I think your face is horrid." For, logically, the man who feels heartaches? All those grievous The implication is obvious. Would you decline? All those
Mrs, Cheng Yip Shi wishes to express her very sincere and heart-felt thanks to all those members of the public, and capecially those who have worked по very ardently to get up the Petition and mado it a success.
The
Hongkong Telegraph discard, with Japan asserting un-muins rood-infinitely good. Why? thing well rid of, for, after all, we
of
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1933.
REPRIEVED
national framework.
Old Jokes Are Best
Can it be possible that the world is moving toward an era bare of humour? Such a la- mentable prognostication has its source in no less eminent an authority than Punch. Mr. E.
Die agalu the
full
our motto. At least
now grumble because the conduc- tor doesn't give them their five centa change.
ESC.
THINGS WE HAVE NOT HEARD LATELY.
From Darling Dingo, the film
HEARTACHES.
the little brain-waves came dan- cing down and Flume and we have a special jug of cream for tes.
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the carrying out of the death sentence, an extremely heavy re- sponsibility rested upon His Ex- cellency the Governor and his advisers. It is to their credit that, after full reconsideration of all the factors in what was n most unusual case, they have tempered justice with mercy. They have the knowledge that their final verdict is appreciated by all who believed that the cir-
could not face a second lease of it be reinterred? A "No" acems. that life is so poor a thing that he losses? All those buried hopes to cumstances called for the exer- .V. Knox (Evoe) paints out that would gladly cancel
To-day is the day on which wo whatever Inevitable; but only so until we function in the Heartache depart- cise of compassion. Leat there the types that had always been balance remains to him. And cast our minds back over the years, ment. We just shut ourself up in be a fear in some quarters that the easiest target for the pro-men, as we know, do not do that. Then we may any, rather: All¦a little blue room, with our wee the decision is contrary to wise fessional humourist were now They hang on grimly. When I that beauty, all that love, all those kitten "Fluffic," and think and public policy, it should be stress-far too well informed and quite look back upon my own life it triumphs, all those evils over-think and THINK about Other ed that the case was no ordin- too sophisticated to perpetuate seems to have been good to me. come! Yes! For my part, any People's Troubles. Sometimes our ary one. There were factors in the faux pas that formerly that my memory of the past is without guarantees. Life at any body, and wo just have to have a In doing that, of course, I realise way, I would volunteer, and that little thinks are no good to any- it which removed it very far tickled the superior risibilities of selective in ita operation. We price is good. And I would live good cry: but sometimes, presto! from sheer, brutal murder. renders. Before anyone yields forget the unpleasant and the sad mine again gladly. These have already been to despair, however, at the mere brought into prominence both in contemplation of a time when the comments which followed there shall be nothing funny left the first decision of the Execu-to write about, let him take heart tive Council and in the sub- in the comforting assurance of missions put forward in the Punch's new editor that there is petitions on the accused man's still the Politician who, it is safe behalf. No-one more than our- to assume, will always be with selves would deplore any weak-men. And though the plumber, ening of authority likely to give the policeman and the cook de encouragement to the activities part, there still remains the of hired assassins. There need Bright Young Thing. On the be no fear that the Cheng de- whole, one is inclined to feel cinion will have any such reac- that Mr. Knox is not really very tiona. Each case has to be pessimistic-in fact, that he was judged on its merits; in the pre- probably having his own little sent instance, justice has not joke-and that Punch will on- been thwarted by the commuta-tinuo a foremost British in- tion of the death sentence. stitution. With the charming Cheng, more fool than hardened conservatism one would natural- criminal, still has to bear
aly expect to emanate from No. heavy penalty for his misdeeds. 10 Bouverie Street, the editor It is right that ho should. In expressed the belief that "some supporting the pleas for cle- of the old jokes are still the best. mency made on his behalf, we ....We may know what is.com- were actuated by no other con- ing, but we get our amusement aiderations than our own deep-from speculating as to how the | seated convictions, the strong dear old thing is going to come force of public opinion, and dic-out in this particular version." tates of humanity. Representa- tions, direct or otherwise, reach- ed us from no quarter. Cheng. now fully repentant, has to face
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
FILL YOUR
the rigors of a life sentence. He hus, we have no doubt, learnt his lesson. Should he have the
STUDY RATHER TO good fortune to outlive his term, MIND, THAN YOUR COFFERS; KNOW- it is not too much to hope that | ING THAT GOLD AND SILVER WENA he may, in the`dim future, yetĮ ORIGINALLY MINGLED WITH DIRT, have before him many years of | UNTIL AVARICE OR AMBITION PARTED useful, law-abiding life.
THEM.-Soncca.
"I think I'll stop and buy something for that old couple on my route. I haven't the heart to pass thom by again."
Take, for instance, CLARENCE, "I'm in such a holo," writes Clarence. "I mot such nice girl at the Queen's on Tuesday and I asked her to meet me again on Saturday and was so looking for- ward to it, and now I can't re- member what she looks like.
Well, What ans I to do?" thought, and thought about poor Clarence to-day, and Fluffle was so naughty and etill no brain-wave came. And suddenly, Prestol and the trick was done!
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CON-
"Dear Clarenca" (we wrote-for ho'd sent a stamped addressed on- velope, like the good, careful boy he is) "you are very naughty to- have forgotten what SHE' looks like, but Life to like that, isn't it? So this is what you must 'do. SHE' will be thero and looking for you, won't she? Bo all you
in a need do ica to stand spicuous place (aonicwhere near the entrance, I suggest) and if 'SHE'S' koon 'SHE' will make her prosence known to you! You might have something in your buttonhole to attract attention-for example, a wee dinky knot of blue ribbon. We are sending you a quarter of a yard from Laneford's with in- atructions how to make it up."
Dear Clarence, we hope to doesn't drop another brick! There is, of course, just the grisly, grus- some chance that "SHE" has for- gotten what "HE” looks like. Life la so torribly like that.
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